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If you're going to work for HCA I'd say the lesser of two evils is Mercy hospital.

They have a huge ICU. It's split into 4 sections. CICU, SICU, MICU, TICU. They also have a step down IMCU type unit you have to float to that sucks. All the patients are in contact and airborne precautions but the rooms are curtained. They're not the correct rooms for those types of patients. The have a pediatric unit that is mostly empty. I wouldn't take my kid there. It's big and the patients are very sick. And you see scary things. Like patients dying after they looked well enough to go home. I say if you're going to do terrible, do it where there are no contracts. That way you can leave as soon as you get a better offer. All you really need is 1 year experience and you can apply to any hospital. Some even have RN volunteer programs where they will hire you if they like you. I settled for KRMC because they were my first offer and I should have never done that. I should have pursued where I really wanted to work. Some people are doing it just for the experience, and if you think you can handle it go ahead. ICU was my dream too. But I hated it there. Also, no employee parking. And I was constantly parking on the side of the road and got a ticket. And take your own food. I got food poisoning there. And they don't serve food to employees on the weekends.

Well, if you can handle insufficient training, large patient load, unsafe environment, and lies about the job and contract and training, you should be fine. I walked into that mess with no clue how bad it was and I felt sorry for the patients that they were there. I don't know how the hospital is still open. But you're choice.

Wow! Either your nursing school experience sucked or your preceptorship was awesome. I had the opposite experiences. I felt like the training program took away from what I learned in nursing school and that the people teaching were not up to date. I didn't learn hardly anything extraordinary outside of nursing school. I had learned ICU in nursing school and other than more details on IV drips and stuff like that, it wasn't anything to say WOW about. I felt it was very inadequate training for ICU. Plus they will give you 3-4 patients. Totally sucks.

As soon as you start the onboarding with Healthtrust.

Hopefully everyone had great StaRN experiences wherever they went. Mine was awful. Kendall Regional is the worst hospital I have ever been in. I would never go there as a patient. It's the only HCA hospital I have been inside and the last HCA hospital I plan on entering. HCA sucks. And I speak from what I saw going on. I wasn't mistreated although I noticed that HCA doesn't give a flip about their employees, mich less their patients. Stay away from for profit hospitals. All they care about is their profit.

Hopefully everyone had great StaRN experiences wherever they went. Mine was awful. Kendall Regional is the worst hospital I have ever been in. I would never go there as a patient. It's the only HCA hospital I have been inside and the last HCA hospital I plan on entering. HCA sucks.

I graduated from west coast university last fall. They are an excellent program. Definitely will become a name here in south Florida. The teas isn't hard. You can get a scholarship based on your scores. So study and do your best. The program is expensive. Not sure how much now since there was a change in tuition right before I graduated. But you can get all that info for free from their website or from an advisor. Edwin is personally my fav. He was my advisor and I love him. Very honest. And I appreciated that.

If it takes your payment you failed. If it won't let you complete the registration you passed.

A tip my dean gave me was to use a study schedule. Today study fundamentals, tomorrow study intro to professional nursing, the next day study fundamentals, and so on. That really helped me to juggle everything.

This site won't let me private message. Well, nursing school is hard and there will be disgruntled students. Usually students who fail become disgruntled. You will need to study hard. Nursing is not for everyone which is why some cannot make it through the program. The people I met from the LA campus had no complaints. They all graduated fine. So if you're ready to study hard and you're dedicated to doing this, I think you'll be fine.

I just saw your message in my inbox but I cannot reply. What did you choose to do? I just graduated from West Cost University and it was the best decision I've ever made. Was able to participate in their Oxford Honors international Program, graduated with Honors and all the great things that I would not have been able to receive had I attended an ADN program. Also they offer a lot of perks for their students. They have paid my application fee for the nclex, plus they paid for the exam itself. Then they paid for our prep program and even more. If you are not already in a program I advise you to consider WCU. Have a great New Year!

I just saw your message in my inbox but I cannot reply. What did you choose to do? I just graduated from West Cost University and it was the best decision I've ever made. Was able to participate in their Oxford Honors international Program, graduated with Honors and all the great things that I would not have been able to receive had I attended an ADN program. Also they offer a lot of perks for their students. They have paid my application fee for the nclex, plus they paid for the exam itself. Then they paid for our prep program and even more. If you are not already in a program I advise you to consider WCU. Have a great New Year!

Hi I saw your message but the site will not allow me to reply. I attended Miami campus and it was a great experience. Tuition is less in Miami because income is less. So I was able to cover costs of tuition with my federal grants, loans and a school scholarship I won. Let me know if you have any other questions.

It's a great school! It is just as hard as any nursing program and we do most of our clinicals in the local baptist hospitals. I graduate next year. I have been in the program for a year now and I really like it.